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02/09/2026

🇬🇲 THE GAMBIA BUSINESS & ECONOMY WATCH — BORROWING REMAINS EXPENSIVE, SO CASH FLOW MATTERS

The Central Bank of The Gambia enters September with its Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 14%, while July inflation stood at around 7%.

The latest displayed valuation rate from 31 August puts the U.S. dollar at approximately D72.93, while the 91-day Treasury-bill yield is around 4.67%.

💰 WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR BUSINESSES?

With borrowing still relatively expensive, entrepreneurs need to think carefully before building businesses that depend heavily on loans.

I continue to favour businesses that can:

✅ Start with manageable capital
✅ Generate cash relatively quickly
✅ Sell equipment customers genuinely need
✅ Create recurring income through services
✅ Provide maintenance and replacement parts

☀️🌾 AGRICULTURE + ENERGY = AN AREA TO WATCH

Recent investment-development activity continues to point toward opportunities in agriculture, agro-processing and decentralised energy.

One business model I find particularly interesting is:

☀️ Solar irrigation systems
💧 Water pumps & storage tanks
🔋 Batteries & inverters
❄️ Cold-storage systems
🧊 Commercial refrigeration
🔧 Spare parts
🛠️ Installation & maintenance

The opportunity isn’t necessarily to own the farm yourself.

You can build a business supplying the farmers.

For example:

IMPORT EQUIPMENT → SELL → INSTALL → MAINTAIN → SUPPLY PARTS → UPGRADE SYSTEMS

One customer can therefore generate several sources of revenue instead of only one sale.

💡 MY BUSINESS TAKEAWAY

When borrowing costs are high, don’t only ask:

“How much profit can this product make?”

Also ask:

“How quickly can I recover my capital, and can this customer generate recurring revenue?”

🇬🇲 The strongest opportunities may not always be the biggest projects. Sometimes they are the businesses supplying, installing and maintaining what those projects need.

— AMSORIA
Business • Investment Ideas • Financial Freedom

02/09/2026

31/08/2026

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31/08/2026

🇬🇲 THE GAMBIA BUSINESS WATCH — HIGH BORROWING COSTS FAVOUR CASH-EFFICIENT BUSINESSES

The Central Bank of The Gambia kept its Monetary Policy Rate at 14% at its 19–20 August meeting.

💰 WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ENTREPRENEURS?

When interest rates remain high, borrowing money to start or expand a business can be expensive.

That makes businesses with lower startup costs, faster stock turnover and limited dependence on debt particularly interesting.

☀️ WHERE I SEE OPPORTUNITIES

Rather than focusing only on owning farmland, entrepreneurs can build businesses around the equipment farmers and other businesses already need:

☀️ Solar-powered irrigation systems
💧 Water pumps
🔋 Batteries & inverters
❄️ Refrigeration & cold storage
📦 Packaging equipment and materials
🌾 Small agricultural-processing machines
🔧 Spare parts, installation & maintenance

💡 THINK BEYOND SELLING THE PRODUCT

For example, don’t simply import a solar irrigation system and sell it once.

A stronger model could be:

IMPORT → SELL → INSTALL → MAINTAIN → SUPPLY SPARE PARTS → UPGRADE

One customer can therefore generate several different sources of revenue over time.

Solar-powered irrigation is already being used in Gambian agriculture, which demonstrates that there is a real practical use case for this technology.

🇬🇲 MY BUSINESS TAKEAWAY

You don’t necessarily need to own the farm to make money from agriculture.

You can supply the farmer.

And you don’t necessarily need to manufacture the equipment yourself.

Import what the market needs, provide professional installation and after-sales service, build trust, and gradually scale.

When borrowing is expensive, capital efficiency and cash flow matter even more.

— AMSORIA
Business • Investment Ideas • Financial Freedom

31/08/2026

🚢 CHINA → THE GAMBIA IMPORT WATCH 🇨🇳🇬🇲

For anyone planning to import goods from China into The Gambia, don’t focus only on the advertised shipping price. Your final landed cost is what determines whether you make a profit.

📦 CURRENT SHIPPING PLANNING RANGE

Based on recent public freight indications, I would currently use approximately:

LCL / Shared Container:
➡️ US$100–250 per CBM + Banjul destination charges

20ft Full Container Load (FCL):
➡️ US$5,000–6,500

40ft / 40HQ Full Container:
➡️ US$5,800–7,500

China → Banjul Transit:
⏱️ Approximately 35–60 days

Some August LCL channels are advertising volume-dependent rates as low as roughly US$79–160 per CBM.

⚠️ But remember: a cheap CBM rate does not automatically mean cheap shipping.

🚨 WHAT SHOULD YOUR FREIGHT QUOTATION INCLUDE?

Before paying a forwarder, ask for a written breakdown covering:

🏭 Supplier → warehouse transportation
📦 Export handling
🏗️ CFS / consolidation charges
🚢 Ocean freight
📄 Documentation fees
⚠️ Peak Season Surcharge (PSS)
🌍 Transshipment route
🇬🇲 Banjul destination charges
📑 Delivery-order fees
🛃 Customs clearance
🚚 Local delivery

💡 BUSINESS LESSON

A forwarder might advertise:

“China → Gambia: US$100/CBM”

That number sounds attractive.

But if consolidation, documentation, destination handling, customs, clearing and delivery are excluded, your actual cost can be considerably higher.

So don’t ask only:

“How much per CBM?”

Ask:

“How much will everything cost until my goods are cleared and ready for collection in The Gambia?”

That’s the number that matters.

📊 Factory Cost + China Transport + Consolidation + Freight + Surcharges + Banjul Charges + Customs/Taxes + Clearing + Local Delivery = TRUE LANDED COST

The cheapest freight quotation is not always the cheapest shipment. Know the full cost before you buy. 🚢📦

— AMSORIA
Business • Investment Ideas • Financial Freedom

29/08/2026

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